links for 2007-02-09

We Are the Web
The Netscape IPO wasn’t really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer – behold the power of the people.

This week, we’d like to review some basics on how video over IP works. As with voice, for video to be put into an IP packet it first must be converted into digital format and, as is also the case with voice, digital video is then compressed to maximize